Unlike many other large firms that have struggled to find good business in Hyderabad - Trilegal closed its office in January and Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas only has a skeleton presence remaining there, Tatva has doubled down on the state following the Andhra Pradesh-Telangana bifurcation.

Dhir & Dhir Associates has hired as its Hyderabad head Kochhar & Co’s former local partner Siva K Gopinatham with a team of three associates, who had joined the firm in 2010 from Singhania & Partners but left several years later.

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas (CAM) Mumbai partner Anshuman Jaiswal, who handles corporate and also heads up knowledge management, is moving back to Hyderabad, folllowing office head Rahul Sarella having left a month ago.

Legal Matrix, a Hyderabad-based start-up law firm set up in 2011 by Aruna Kumari after leaving Fox Mandal Little, as it was then called, has merged into Kochhar & Co’s Hyderabad office with five lawyers.

Exclusively: Khaitan & Co is actively scouting to open Chennai and Hyderabad offices as Amarchand Mangaldas lateral partner Ganesh Prasad started in the Bangalore office yesterday with a remit to focus on South India.

Exclusive: Dua Associates Hyderabad has advised on the construction of a major NCC Infrastructure Rs 7,047 crore power project with Amarchand Mangaldas Delhi leading for the lenders, one year after India Legal merged with Dua following Tatva Legal’s mega-breakaway.